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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4594506, member: 110350&quot;]A very interesting article; thank you.&nbsp; (The Google Translate translation into English is easily understandable.) The photos are great; they remind me of the menorahs I saw carved into the stones of the ancient synagogue in Ostia Antica.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never denied that there were Jewish communities living in &quot;the Bosporus&quot; (in Crimea) as long ago as Ancient Rome; there&#039;s never been a dispute about that.&nbsp; That has nothing to do with Firkowicz&#039;s own fraudulent activities, especially his efforts to prove that the Karaites were descended from such communities.&nbsp; And the article doesn&#039;t say anything specifically connecting these archaeological discoveries to the Khazars.&nbsp; (There are still, so far as I know, no such discoveries in &quot;Khazaria&quot; itself.) The article even mentions that the facts are &quot;unclear&quot; concerning &quot;the conversion of the Khazar ruler and his entourage to Judaism.&quot;&nbsp; As I said before, of course, I don&#039;t really care one way or the other if it&#039;s ultimately proven that the Khazarian elite did, in fact, convert to Judaism.&nbsp; The much more important issue is the completely baseless attempt by certain people to establish a genetic connection between the Khazars and today&#039;s Ashkenazi Jews.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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